This course will examine the ways individual identities are formed, developed, and represented within the complex context of displacement narratives. Some of these narratives include transnational and transracial adoption, immigration, dislocation, and the growing refugee crisis. Questions of race, ethnicity, and forced assimilation will be important to how we approach identity formation. Through the exploration of time-based media and other modes of individual expression, we will investigate self-representation and self-portraiture as a means of visually exploring displacement and identity formation. This course aims to reclaim one's own individual narrative and to critically examine art practices such as documentary photography that have historically objectified underrepresented people, communities, and cultures as approached through the lens of colonialism.

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